Mother's Day Gifts Jason Would Never Think of On His Own

1. Gift card for the car wash.
2. A new DustBuster.
3. A hammock and kit to hang it from the trees in the backyard.
4. A giant rock to put in the flowerbed I'm making in the backyard.
5. Waterproofing for the remaining walls of the basement.
6. A bottle of Chanel #5 parfum that doesn't have flakes of skin floating in it*
7. Happy Balls.
8. Gift certificate to River Colors, my local yarn store of choice.
9. Qiviut yarn.  Just because.
10. Maid service.

*When we lived in Japan, K's mom came to visit and bought me a tiny bottle of Chanel #5 perfume (not eau de toilette) from the in-flight duty free cart.  I've been using it ever since, using the bottle's  stopper to dab a bit on my wrists and behind my ears whenever I need a lift.  The bottle has stayed cocooned in its original box so it wouldn't get knocked over in my medicine chest.  But a few weeks ago I took it out of the box to gauge the level of perfume left, and I was kind of grossed out to see flakes of what I can only guess are my skin floating around inside like a really nice-smelling snow globe.  Guess that's what 10 years of dabbing will do.